Asopo

One of the Pierides, the daughters of King Pierus of Emathia (Macedonia). After losing a contest with the Muses she and her sisters were transformed into birds.

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References

Sources

  • Antoninus Liberalis, 9.
  • Ovid. Metamorphoses v, 295 ff.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 29.4.
  • Tzetzes on Hesiod's Works and Days, 6.